How does it work?

Select

Through Wikum's easy-to-navigate tree visualization, you can get a
snapshot of the various comments, replies, and existing summaries of
the entire discussion thread.

You can click, drag-to-select, Command/Ctrl-click,
and expand or collapse replies
using the visualization in order to select the discussion level at
which you want read or summarize.

Summarize

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After selecting a comment or a subtree or group of comments,
you can write a summary of these comments, with the help of
automatically highlighted important sentences, and features to add citations.
You can also tag, hide, or automatically cluster comments to organize the discussion.

Wikum uses a recursive summarization approach, allowing you to
build summaries on top of other summaries, your own or others.
That is, once you've written a summary of a subset of comments, another
summary can summarize a larger subset of comments, taking into account your summary.

Moderate

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With the ability to flag and edit summaries as well as see the entire edit history,
Wikum empowers the community to keep track of who has participated and
the overall quality of summaries.

Features

Tags and Clusters

By adding auto-suggested or user-generated tags as well as automatic clustering, similar comments can be grouped together for further action.

Flags

Flags empower users to highlight when summaries need further work due to incompleteness, non-neutral language, or writing quality.

Edit

From a wiki philosophy, Wikum permits users edit any existing summaries to make them better.
User permissions are also controllable for those wishing a private workspace.

History

Wikum keeps a log of all edits so that the community can see who has edited each summary and keep a record of all activities.

Import Discussions

Wikum has both public and private workspaces for summarizing discussions.
Explore and contribute to public summaries of discussions or log in to
create a private workspace for yourself and your collaborators.

Ongoing research collaboration with Wikimedia Foundation to evaluate the utility of Wikum
for synthesizing input and determining consensus on large Wikimedia discussions, such as RfCs and WMF Community consultations.

Wikum @ ICDemocracy17

Wikum was one of the projects showcased at
Collective Intelligence for Democracy 2017- MediaLab Prado Madrid,
where hackers, activists, politicians, programmers, designers, and researchers from
all over the world came together and collaborated for two weeks to hack on Wikum and adapt it for improving
citizen participation in democracy.